Saddam Hussein uses PlayStation 2 to conquer the world

Source - World Net Daily

One of the most ridiculous stories we've come across recently are
reports on World Net
Daily that Saddam Hussein has been buying up as many as 4000
PlayStation 2 consoles. As well as serving as a great source of
entertainment for his elite Republican guard soldiers now that they
are unable to rape, murder, and torture Kurds and Kuwaitis, they
are apparently going to be "bundled together into a sort of crude
super-computer and used for a variety of military applications".
Yes, we were rather skeptical too.

In what sounds suspiciously like a Sony marketing ploy rather than
the words of even the most unintelligent of military intelligence
experts, an unidentified source is reported as saying that "most
Americans don't realize that each PlayStation unit contains a
32-bit CPU every bit as powerful as the processor found in most
desktop and laptop computers". He goes on to claim that "the
graphics capabilities of a PlayStation are staggering - five times
more powerful than that of a typical graphics workstation, and
roughly 15 times more powerful than the graphics cards found in
most PCs". Pull the other one, it has (jingle) bells on it...

With a remarkably straight face, WND add that "a single PlayStation
can generate up to 75 million polygons per second. Polygons, as
noted in the DIA report, are the basic units used to generate the
surface of 3-D models - extremely useful in military design and
modeling applications. Bundled PlayStation computers could also be
used to calculate ballistic data for long-range missiles, or in the
design of nuclear weapons. Iraq has long had difficulty calculating
the potential yield of nuclear devices - a critical requirement in
designing such weapons. Networking these computers might provide a
method for correcting this deficiency."

Perhaps the most amusing claim is that "an integrated bundle of
12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer power to control
an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV". It all sounds rather
fishy to us, and we somehow doubt that we can reasonably blame old
Saddam for ruining Christmas for thousands of gamers around the
world by buying up their consoles. Sony seem to have done a good
job of fouling up supplies all by themselves, without any aid from
third world dictators. Still, it's a funny little story for the
silly season...